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Historic Linux File Archive Created

Posted by simoniker on from the welcome-to-the-world-of-yesterday dept.

jemagid writes "Ibiblio (nee metalab, nee sunsite) has rummaged through all the old CDs and old FTP archives we could find, to put together a beautiful picture of the early days of the Linux community: Historic Linux. The files include snapshots of the early Linux archives including sunsite.unc.edu and tsx-11.mit.edu, and early distributions such as MCC (Manchester Computing Center) and SLS (Softlanding Linux Systems), which were some of the first attempts to make Linux easy to install and use. The early RedHat releases are also included, as is early Suse, Debian, Slackware, and Blade. The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM, so these could be fun ways to resurrect ancient hardware."

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  1. Beautiful Picture? by Hayzeus · · Score: 4, Funny

    I remember trying to install from those same SLS diskette images downloaded from Rusty 'n Edie's at 9600 baud. It was not a pretty picture.

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  2. Hardware by jargoone · · Score: 5, Funny

    The early distributions ran on machines as small as 386's with 2-4 MB of RAM"

    Damn! Time to upgrade again!

  3. Re:Uhh... Really? by JiffyPop · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't imagine there are many warez servers with 2MB RAM and 100MB free HD space... Besides that, I would think that as many versions as the underlying libraries have gone through that current cracking tools wouldn't know what to do with something so outdated.

    Maybe you should create an archive of old Linux cracking tools just to even the playing field?

  4. way back... by zapp · · Score: 4, Funny

    before ls had color?!?! ;)

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  5. Why do that ? by Billly+Gates · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you want a taste of old Linux then use Debian. Jeeze.

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  6. Re:Uhh... by Pieroxy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I actually managed - back in the good old days - to boot up a Linux on a 486 33MHz with 1MB RAM. The only problem is that I couldn't log in: it took the system more than 1 minute to prompt me for my password when I entered my nickname. As the timeout is set to 1 minute, I got prompted for my nickname again, without getting a chance of typing my password!!!

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